Gilbert O'Sullivan Quotes

Love is tested in so many ways. How do I articulate this? Two people are together. There are stakes, strife, struggles, all these things that make us fall for someone, love someone even more, leave someone.

Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce.

Most of our songs are about relationships.

I mean, we had on our show, we had marriages, divorces and other stuff going on. And that was just me.

One hopes, of course, that a relationship grows and becomes a deep and wonderful marriage and friendship that lasts forever. But that's not always the case.

I prefer films and dramas based on families and relationships - films which focus on love and harmony.

The more time you spend with somebody, the more your relationship grows.

Look your significant other in the eyes, make that connection.

Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual.

I think 'Tattoo's a song that can go so many different ways. Some people think of it as a break-up song, but, for me, it's about somebody who comes into your life and really touches you - be they a friend, a family member or someone you're in a relationship with.

Marriage destroyed my relationship with two wonderful men.

Every relationship probably has, at its inception, a hundred things that you could pick on and divert you from it, but the feeling is there. You figure out a way to make it work.

I've lived with women, loved women, lost women. They've loved me, lost me, whatever.

A family is a risky venture, because the greater the love, the greater the loss... That's the trade-off. But I'll take it all.

No matter where I go, I actually have a lot of couples coming and telling me that one of my songs was instrumental in strengthening their romance!

I feel that marriage can lead to the ultimate rejection and failure and divorce and things we all fear.

I think for love to work you have to be with someone who you want to talk to before going to bed at night.

The only time a relationship is good is when you really love them.

Divorce can be crazy. Man, if you're happy... Love is a beast, man. Hold on. Be prepared for any way it may go, and be honest.

At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.

I think invariably when you are dealing with relationships, the films really center on that, and the plot is really born out of that. That's the most core part of a relationship: intimacy, I think, whether it's expressed or not.

Timing is everything with relationships.

The beauty of a relationship is when you get used to a person; it is not sudden. It is just a process, and you don't realise when love happens.

If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity.

I don't even like to use the word relationship. I don't know what it means.